messianic time

a tiny shiver of messianic time for Shabbat: imagine there were no oppression to produce our identities. no homophobia or compulsory cisheterosexuality to produce some of us as queer, no racism to produce some of us as racialized, just millions of forms of descriptive difference not essentialized & politicized by violence. when we said “i” …

portrait of the autist as a young whatever

1) what is this system of behaviour, i do not understand it & all my intuitions seem wrong 2) i shall study this!! 3) i have systematically theorized the norms & values of this system and will act in accordance with them, even at the expense of other norms & values i have previously theorized …

“tough but fair”

child abuse language is domestic abuse language is online shaming language is cop language is dad language is i’m warning you language is don’t make me tell you again is consequences language is punishment language is the prison guard’s language and we learn it early is the torturer’s language don’t say i didn’t warn you …

misrecognitions: an evolving digital chapbook

i turned my website which used to house Opinions into a place only for Poems!!! collected here are fifteen faves among the little prose poems or meditations or whatever that i’ve been posting on my facebook so can’t submit to Official Publication Places elsewhere, and possibly wouldn’t even want to, but perhaps you’ll find some …